AtD "to undercut and ironize"---Barbie G.

[Mark Kohut]

Here is Pynchon himself, commenting on his own work, (at one level) in similar ways, in M & D: opening page:
 
"a sinister and wonderful Card Table which exhibits the cheaper Wave-like Grain known in the Trade as Wand'ring Heart,
causing an illusion of Depth into which for years children have gaz'd as into the illustrated Pages of Books................
....along with so many hinges, sliding Mortises, hidden catches, and secret compartments that neither the Twins nor
their Sisters can say they have been to the end of it." --p.5
 

From: Rich Clavey <antizoyd at yahoo.com>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org; barbie gaze <barbiegaze at gmail.com> 
Sent: Friday, March 2, 2012 10:49 PM
Subject: Re: AtD, Lake and overcoming retribution?

Well said. This is the reason I love Pynchon's work.
z.

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--- On Fri, 3/2/12, barbie gaze <barbiegaze at gmail.com> wrote:

From: barbie gaze <barbiegaze at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: AtD, Lake and overcoming retribution?
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Date: Friday, March 2, 2012, 6:13 AM

Pynchon's purpose, to replicate in fiction a society he regards as depraved, and to undermine ordinary and common perceptions of that society while masterfully erecting a labyrinthine structure riddled with cul-de-sacs, dead ends, trap doors, fun-house reflections, experimentations with genres and narratives and characters and forms, to undercut and ironize, to draw from and sensational sources and give the lie to the nostalgic revisonists, is achived in this work, AGtD.    
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